Pullign random information from file?

[smurfier]

- Skin should be SKIN (line 16)

Yeah... that's what you get when you're editing your post while going out the door.

[poiru]

Here is a non-Lua solution that might work for you:

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[Variables]
Sat1=Saturday
Sat2=Caturday
Sun1=Sunday
Sun2=Funday
;etc..

[mDay]
Measure=Time
Format=%w

[mDayName]
Measure=Calc
Formula=mDay + (RANDOM ? 10 : 20)
UpdateRandom=0
LowBound=0
HighBound=1
Substitute="10":"#Sun1#","11":"#Mon1#","12":"#Tue1#","13":"#Wed1#","14":"#Thu1#","15":"#Fri1#","16":"#Sat1#","20":"#Sun2#","22":"#Mon2#","22":"#Tue2#","23":"#Wed2#","24":"#Thu2#","25":"#Fri2#","26":"#Sat2#"

(use MeasureName=mDayName on your STRING meter)

[Yggdrasil]

As I said, math.random() returns a random number in range [0,1], so for example: 0.0042876342, 0.98742873, 0.189742. If you want 0 or 1 randomly, you have to specify it as a parameter: math.random(0,1)
tostring is not required, Lua can concatenate strings with numbers.

[poiru]

The user is using a time measure to return the "Sunday" thru "Saturday" and another measure to return a random 1 or 0. The also have variables "Sunday1", "Sunday0" thru "Saturday1","Saturday0". We need to retrieve and return these variables. I used math.random() so as to eliminate the random measure. I'm wondering if I don't need to use tostring() on the random number before concatenating it.

Ah. You should use Day:GetStringValue() in that case (GetValue() will always return 0 when used with a Time measure returning a non-number [i.e a string]).

[smurfier]

Yay! That gets it to work!

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PROPERTIES =
{
}

function Initialize()
   DayCheck = ""
   Rand = 0
   Day = SKIN:GetMeasure("MeasureToday")
end -- function Initialize

function Update()
   if DayCheck ~= Day:GetStringValue() then
   Rand = math.random(0,1)
   end
   DayCheck = Day:GetStringValue()
   A = SKIN:GetVariable(DayCheck..Rand)
   return A
end -- function Update

And my understanding has increased.

[Versen]

....Okay, I'm rather confused and conflicted on which would be a better choice. Just using RainMeter or "outsourcing" into Lua. I also think you all have my original idea in a charlie-foxtrot...

What i'm trying to do is call to variables placed inside of a Variables.inc file which is inside the same filepath as the "skin" itself. I'm doing this beacuse the original author has it setup this way, and i'm not wanting to deviate too much from that. From what i can tell the Lua script I'm given is more adept at that, and seems like it could allow for a larger file where i can store the messages I'm wanting to pull. But for simplicity's sake RainMeter seems like the better choice. Which leaves me at an impasse(for me).

[smurfier]

Personally I like the lua approach better because it eliminates a measure (the one that generates a random number), it only generates a random number when the day changes, and you don't need to have a long substitute.

[Versen]

Okay, so that shortens things some. But is there anyway to get to call to a file outside of the file the measure is placed in so I don't have to have a huge list of variables for that skin?

Edit. When replacing the lua script with the new one, I still get it returning 0. The String Meter I mean.

[smurfier]

I don't understand as my test skin has the variables in an .inc as well.
Here is my test "set" so that you can compare.

LuaTest.ini

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[Rainmeter]
Author=Smurfier
Update=1000

[Metadata]
Name=
Config=
Description=
Instructions=
Version=
Tags=
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0
Variant=
Preview=

[Variables]
@include=Variables.inc

[MeasureToday]
Measure=Time
Format=%A

[MeasureLua]
Measure=Script
ScriptFile=LuaTest.lua

[Nil]
Meter=string
Text=""

Variables.inc

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[Variables]
Sunday0=Sunday0
Sunday1=Sunday1
Monday0=Monday0
Monday1=Monday1
Tuesday0=Tuesday0
Tuesday1=Tuesday1
Wednesday0=Wednesday0
Wednesday1=Wednesday1
Thursday0=Thursday0
Thursday1=Thursday1
Friday0=Friday0
Friday1=Friday1
Saturday0=Blah0
Saturday1=Blah1

LuaTest.lua

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PROPERTIES =
{
}

function Initialize()
   DayCheck = ""
   Rand = 0
   Day = SKIN:GetMeasure("MeasureToday")
end -- function Initialize

function Update()
   if DayCheck ~= Day:GetStringValue() then
   Rand = math.random(0,1)
   end
   DayCheck = Day:GetStringValue()
   A = SKIN:GetVariable(DayCheck..Rand)
   return A
end -- function Update

[poiru]

I don't understand as my test skin has the variables in an .inc as well.
Here is my test "set" so that you can compare.

In this case, why not get rid of the Time measure (as suggested by Yggdrasil)?

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function Initialize()
	prevDay = ""
	retValue = ""
end

function Update()
	local currDay = os.date("%A")

	if currDay ~= prevDay then
		prevDay = currDay
		local randNum = math.random(0, 1)
		retValue = SKIN:GetVariable(currDay .. randNum)
	end

	return retValue 
end

(slightly optimized the code, too)